The 24 Types of Authoritarian (or: The Libertarian Response to “The 24 Types of Libertarian”)

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• I didn't think you'd post it; but you did. Thanks!

• George: Glad you liked it! While I'm not a libertarian, there are parts of the philosophy that I agree with. I'm all for the personal responsibility parts, less crazy about the bits that seem rather dog-eat-dog to me.

• For the 576 types of centrist, pick one from column A and one from column B.

• Oh, So schoolteachers and supporters of free healthcare are *authoritarians* now? Its when the libertarians look more and more like right-wingers I know I will never call myself one.

• @Stian

  This cartoon appears (to me) to poke at the right as much as it does the left. Please do not insult libertarians by claiming we are right-wingers.

  Also, one definition of authoritarian is a government/society that expects unquestioning obedience. The USA's school system and current healthcare trend would both seem to fit with that definition.

• I hope the comic is poking fun at both sides. The extremes of both ends of the political spectrum are equally messed up. I believe that some people need a "hand up", but who is willing to fund that? Also, if taxes get too high, then business will leave, and there go the jobs. It is a balance. And I'm a left-winger!

• @Sam

  Your rhetoric is broken. You certainly can't claim the educational system demands "unquestioning obedience." It works in tandem with social norms and paternal authority, providing a choice between public, private and religious education, and there are organizations representing students (counselors and social workers), teachers (unions and coalitions), and parents (PTA's, etc) in the process. I honestly don't even understand how anyone can claim education is a force of "indoctrination" or that it's even remotely authoritarian.

  Same with Obamacare, of course. As I understand it, there are mandates, but only what was necessary to fund and enforce the policy in the first place. It's an incremental increase in government control and investment in a system that was a total mess of capitalism-gone-wrong: services were far beyond the ability of individuals to pay, and all the money was filtering to insurance companies, the people who produce the least, because they'd positioned themselves as financial gatekeepers. The content of the bill is widely available. The changes will take place slowly. There's no sudden violent enforcement or coercive silencing.

  You can't go around calling everyone involved in society's infrastructure "authoritarian." It's the epitome of a straw-man argument.

• Maybe they wouldn't "Take it lying down", but I'd at least think they'd put a bit more... Effort in to showing how they're not stupid/uncreative, and actually make their own thing.

  I mean, for fuck's sake, it's the exact same art. Are you as bankrupt artistically as well as ideologically?

• Oh, and "by Davi Barker." Hilarious. You're quite the artist, Davi.

• The infrastructure of society imposing itself on you is about as textbook authoritarian as it can get. Why can't society be more voluntary? If you want something, do it, join it, fund it whatever, but don't force me to be a participant, draftee, or investor in it.